Sauropterygia - Wikipedia Sauropterygia (" lizard flippers ") is an extinct taxon of diverse, aquatic diapsid reptiles that developed from terrestrial ancestors soon after the end-Permian extinction and flourished during the Triassic before all except for the Plesiosauria became extinct at the end of that period
Sauropterygian | Fossil Aquatic Reptiles, Nothosaurs, Pistosaurs . . . sauropterygian, any of the aquatic reptiles found as fossils from the Mesozoic Era (251 million to 66 million years ago) Sauropterygians include the nothosaurs, the pistosaurs, and the plesiosaurs, all of which were remarkably well adapted to life in the water
An armoured marine reptile from the Early Triassic of South . . . - eLife Sauropterygia was a diverse clade of Mesozoic marine reptiles that first appeared in the late Early Triassic (Jiang et al , 2014; Li and Liu, 2020) and its members remained important predators in marine ecosystems until their extinction at the end of the Late Cretaceous (Bardet, 1994; Rieppel, 2000a; Benson and Druckenmiller, 2014)
Ancestral body plan and adaptive radiation of sauropterygian marine . . . Sauropterygia is the most diversified and dominant clade among marine reptiles, but their early evolution is scarcely understood Here we report the earliest known complete specimen related to sauropterygians from the Early Triassic
Sauropterygia: Overview - Digital Atlas of Ancient Life Sauropterygia is an extinct clade of secondarily aquatic diapsid reptiles, which means that they evolved from reptilian ancestors that lived on land and not directly from fishes that spent their entire evolutionary history in aquatic environments
Sauropterygia - Wikiwand Sauropterygia (" lizard flippers ") is an extinct taxon of diverse, aquatic diapsid reptiles that developed from terrestrial ancestors soon after the end-Permian extinction and flourished during the Triassic before all except for the Plesiosauria became extinct at the end of that period
A new pachypleurosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Middle . . . The Sauropterygia is the most flourishing clade among Mesozoic marine reptiles in terms of species diversity, and includes the iconic Plesiosauria from the Jurassic and Cretaceous and the stem-group Placodontia and Eosauropterygia from the Triassic (Kelley et al , 2014; Li Liu, 2020; Motani, 2009; Rieppel, 2000; Stubbs Benton, 2016)
Sauropterygia - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Sauropterygia was a superorder of successful aquatic reptiles that flourished during the Mesozoic era They are united by an adaptation of their shoulder, designed to support powerful paddle strokes
The Paleoneurology of Ichthyopterygia and Sauropterygia: Diverse . . . Ichthyopterygia and Sauropterygia are the two dominant clades of secondarily aquatic marine reptiles that diversified in the aftermath of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction approximately 252 million years ago (Figs 3 1 and 3 2)
Palaeos Vertebrates Sauropterygia The Sauropterygia or "lizard flippers" are an important group which includes a wide range of aquatic lizard-like, crocodile-like, long-necked "Loch Ness monster"-like, and large-headed killer whale-like aquatic reptiles